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Interpreting Shostakovich

This three-week festival— interpreting Shostakovich the man, Shostakovich the composer, and specific Shostakovich compositions—comprises three concerts at the National Gallery of Art, Dumbarton Concerts, and Georgetown University, as well as four film events at the National Gallery. The participants include Solomon Volkov, author of Shostakovich’s memoirs; and the eminent British filmmaker Tony Palmer (“No one makes better films about musicians”—The London Times); film historian Peter Rollberg; and music historian Roy Guenther.

Dvořák and America

Dvořák’s American sojourn (1892–95) is one of the most amazing chapters in the history of classical music in the United States. During this brief period he composed his best-known symphony, string quartet and concerto. And he uttered his most famous, influential and controversial words, that a “great and noble school” of American music would be founded upon “Negro melodies.”

“Dvorak in Search of America”
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Free admission
Produced by David Salness in association with PostClassical Ensemble
Commentary by Joseph Horowitz, Patrick Warfield, and the performers

The New World Symphony
Friday, April 19, 2013 at 7:30 pm
The Duke Ellington School of the Arts
3500 R Street, NW, Washington, DC
Box office: 202.337.4825 / website

Dvořák’s New World Symphony with Angel Gil-Ordóñez conducting the combined orchestras of Georgetown University and the Duke Elllington School of the Arts.

NOTE: If you want to hear Dvorak at Clarice Smith — use the metro, green line, College Park stop. And get picked up right from the metro: Nite Ride operates seven nights a week from 5:30PM – 7:30AM, providing a free curb-to-curb service, which can drive you to and from the Metro station and the Clarice Smith Center. For service please call 301.314.NITE (6483).

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Friday February 22, 2013 at 1:15 p.m.
The Georgetown University Music Program’s Friday Music Series
Georgetown University, McNeir Hall

Free admission.

Harry Burleigh, Antonin Dvorak’s assistant at the National Conservatory in New York City (1892-95), became the first composer to transcribe spirituals as art songs, and the first person to sing them. His spiritual arrangements, later used by such artists as Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson, remain in the active repertoire to this day.

NOTE: If you want to hear Dvorak at Clarice Smith — use the metro, green line, College Park stop. And get picked up right from the metro: Nite Ride operates seven nights a week from 5:30PM – 7:30AM, providing a free curb-to-curb service, which can drive you to and from the Metro station and the Clarice Smith Center. For service please call 301.314.NITE (6483).